Amadeus (1984)

A story of two cishet white men creating classical music — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce) and the man who envies him, Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) — earned best actor nominations for both actors, with Abraham ultimately winning. Directed by Milos Forman, this very deserving Best Picture winner was adapted by Peter Shaffer from his own 1979 stage play of the same name.

Sadly, Amadeus is another one of those movies that could never be made today because the dynamic between Mozart and Salieri is too similar to the one between Robert J. Oppenheimer and Lewis Strauss in Oppeheimer, which just won best picture a few days ago. So people would probably think it was a ripoff.

Not fair, we know, but those are the breaks in the alternate reality we’re imagining where somehow Amadeus was never made but Oppenheimer was.